We just finished December herd health the other day, which was no no great shakes given that it was a non-toenail month. All told it probably took maybe 4 hours? I was honestly only involved at the Arena, Jen and Kimberly having whipped out the Main Barn and the Stud Barn on their own, and…
The warm room at the Arena pretty much paid for itself today. Jen went up to do morning check this morning at 6AM and found that Blossom had given birth to a happy, healthy, dark fawn female. That the baby was up and walking with mom’s placenta already expelled and cold means that it was…
We’ve spent the last 5 days or so shifting the farm into it’s winter stance and I’d been meaning to (and probably still will) snap a photo or two to show you all what that entails. Of course I thought that with our pastures essentially used up for the season that we were just being…
As you may have gathered from posts over the last month or so, the birth ratio of males to females around here this spring and summer has been rather slanted towards the testosterone. It happens. In fact the whole reason the Arena here is the size it is (140′ x 200′ when you include the…
Jen, Kim, and Sam spent most of yesterday afternoon doing what will most likely be the final cria shearings of 2011. We’ve learned the hard way over the years that if we push that activity much past September 1st around here, the weather can get sketchy at a moment’s notice. No one, after all, wants…
That was easy and dare I say it even: kind of fun. With a full and experienced crew of 6, including both of our kids, we whipped through the entire herd in just a day and a half. In reality less even as we stopped yesterday around 2PM to take in hay (and in my…
